Let me tell you, when you're standing outside the hotel watching your scissor-door deathmachine get dragged up onto a flatbed, nobody feels sorry for you.
Assigned with his brother Maurice to the Sonderkommando, Shlomo Venezia survived six months at the heart of the deathmachine set up by the Nazis to destroy the Jewish people.
His clients described the atmosphere at the court as something reminiscent of the siege itself - cramped stuffy place, where they had to sit for hours getting bored to death by the slow grinding law machine.
Simply put, many in Congress are afraid of the political machine that is Norquist, understanding that crossing him publicly could be the political kiss of death.